"Joseph W. DeVincentis" wrote:
> There are two different umasks here. There is the normal umask variable
> you set in your shell, which most well-behaved programs try to obey, by
> appropriately changing the mode of any new files created, after creating
> them. Marty asked you to turn this off so you will stop getting the
> message. Resetting umask to 002 or another value won't help, because
> FAT/VFAT filesystems don't really have permissions like this so you
> can't set these permissions, and the automatic change caused by having
> the umask variable set is causing the error message. To prevent these
> messages, try: unset umask
okay I tried `unset umask` and it didn't work. All I could think of to check
was to run the `umask` command, and it returned the value it had prior to the
unset umask. I tried to copy a file just for kicks and still received the
message, so I guess it didn't unset umask.
Minor point of clarification, I set umask on the drive as 002, giving
rwxrwxrw- to all the files. I tried setting my shell umask to 002 as well, but
this led to files with rw-rw-r-- in my home directory (on the / partition).
The umask for the shell is the one that seems to have strange reactions, the
umask on the mounted drive gives all the permisions I would expect. BTW I'm
using bash-1.14.7-7.rpm. No matter what I set this umask to, it NEVER has the
execute bit set, and the man page contradicts itself. At the start ti says the
value becomes mask & 0777, but then later it says it's set to 0666 & ~mask.
Very annoying.
Anyhow I can't figure out how to unset umask. It's not that big of a deal. If
anyone feels the need to resolve this they can email me directly and I'll post
the final solution (when resolved) otherwise don't worry about it.
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